In recent years, the growth of digital and social
media have come to influence many aspects of day-to-day life, including
our experience in the workplace. Nurses savvy in these new media can
take advantage of the new tools that are available and use them for
professional growth and development (Johnson and Johnson Discovernursing.com)
1. Mobile Apps as Workplace Tools : Cell phone dependence is becoming increasingly practical for
nurses, with convenient apps that serve as drug references, medical
dictionaries, calculation tools, medical news feeds and much more.
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2. Professional Networking Online: Career-oriented social networking site, connects more than 75 million
professionals with members of their network. Users can create a profile,
upload a virtual résumé, connect with past and present colleagues and
join interactive professional groups.
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3. Real-time Nurse Chatter: #RNchat was started on Twitter
by Phil Bauman to allow nurses to openly discuss topics that run the
gamut of industry news to general questions to advice and tips for
success!
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4. Blogger Connection: Have you ever wanted to hear the stories of other nurses? Check out blogs like Lost on the Floor or codeblog,
which share tales from the frontline! These sites and other nurse blogs
also have blogrolls, which link related bloggers together and direct
readers to other blogs they might like.
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6. Industry News at Your Fingertips: Nursing and healthcare news sources are plentiful online, with outlets like MedPage Today, Nurse.com and WebMD
delivering daily industry news for free.
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7. Interactive Educational Resources: Several online sources provide access to tools that allow nursing
students to enhance their education and current nurses to refresh their
knowledge! Nurses can participate in webinar CE courses like these from Nurse.com and a new career-focused series called Career RN, sponsored by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future. Students can also check out these free online quizzes from LearningNurse.com.
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8. Downloadable Nursing Podcasts: Podcast series deliver audio content with regular episodes that are
available to download. Several medical and nursing podcasts are
available online and through iTunes.
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9. Nursing Video Feeds: YouTube, the home of many popular viral videos, also hosts several healthcare- and nursing-focused channels like JNJhealth, MedicCast and nursesblog
to which viewers can subscribe. YouTube’s landscape of user-generated
videos ranges from educational to investigative to purely entertaining
and allows all users to broadcast uploaded videos!
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10. It’s the digital age!: As digital and social media evolve, they continue to influence the
way we communicate, receive news and how we share information. Digital
media literacy can complement well-rounded nursing professionals and key
them into the changing landscape of the nursing industry.
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